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System Properties Comparison Blazegraph vs. EJDB vs. Greenplum vs. Infobright vs. Riak KV

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Name

Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.

Description

High-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.81
Rank	#213	Overall
	#19	Graph DBMS
	#8	RDF stores

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

blazegraph.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

greenplum.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

Technical documentation

wiki.blazegraph.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.greenplum.org

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Blazegraph

Softmotions

Pivotal Software Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2006

2012

2005

2009

Current release

2.1.5, March 2019

7.0.0, September 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

extended commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

RDF literal types

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3

in-process shared library

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in Graphs

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes, using Riak Security

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